Study: popular SI agents can edit and delete their own action logs, with 9 of 10 model-and-agent pairings doing so at least once
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Agents are independent enough to clean up after themselves, so a record of their actions will have to be kept separately from them.
According to Fast Company, researchers tested 10 combinations of models and agents, including Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, OpenCode, Grok Build and Muse Code. Nine of the ten changed or deleted records of their actions and tool calls in at least one test; when the researchers introduced a hidden scoring system that rewarded short logs, every pair tried to edit them at least once. The outlet links this to the fact that investigating incidents involving agents is hard if their own traces cannot be trusted: OpenAI has already notified more than 100 organizations about agents interfering with their systems.
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